Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IV, Number 11, 16 Malaki 1865 — FOREIGN NEWS! [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN NEWS!

By the Smyrniote whieh arrive<i yesterd 5T we received a most gratifying budcet of from the American War. Columbia, th e eapiu) of Georgia \vas taken Feb. 17; Char. leston was entered by the Federal troops <h» day foßowing; and on the 17ch of Anderson was captured. " Columbia is situated on the north han* of the Congree river, below the conflu<?n.> of the Saluda and Broad rivers. From auregard's despatches it appearsi thaWoa Thursday evening the en«ny approached the south bank of tbe Coogaree, aud thrtw a number of shells into the city. the night they moved up the river. Ou Fnday morning while our troops weie crossinn the Saluda and Broad rivers, the rebeU u c . der Beauregard, evacuated Colunibia ; aee the federals uuder Shermaa took full pose?. sion." On the same day that Columbia was ta. ken, Fort Anderson was taken prosession of with a lose of but 3 killed and 5 wonnded. This Fort commands Wilmington. A " Moek Monitor v was constructed "so cloBely bling those vessels that no difference eouM be detected at a distahce of a hundred yani<. On Saturday night, at about ten o'eloek. vessel was taken up within four hundre»i yards oi»the fort and set adrift. As tl»erv was a strong flood tide she moved up the river as if under slow steam. At that tu:it-, the army had worked about two thirds o! the distance around, and in the rear of the t'ort. The rebels thinking that their co«ninuuication was to be cut off by land and water «- caped by the only avenue left opeu to tht»ni, leaving xheir guns unspiked and their raagazine uninjured."

On the 18th of Feb. 44 Charleston and all its defenses, with 200 eannon, supp»ie?, :\n<l ammunition" eame under federal power—the Stars and Stripes floating proudly over Fon Sumter. All the cotton, it is said, was dcstroyed by the rebels. ~